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Attachments

We sometimes attach documents, or other files, to pages on Birmingham.gov.uk, for you to download.

We do this for a number of reasons: so that you can have printed copies; to preserve layout of forms and official documents, so that you can manipulate them on your computer, and so on.

We use a number of different file formats. Depending on the computer and software you are using, these may open in your browser, simply by you following the relevant link. Otherwise you may need to have special software to access them.

File Type

File extension
(the last part of the file name)

Description

Software

Text

.txt

Plain text.

Any text editor (such as Notepad, which is part of Microsoft Windows)

Rich Text Format

.rtf

A simple word processor format for text documents, with some presentational control.

Can be opened by many word processors (including all versions of Microsoft Word, and Open Office).